As much as I respect and last be President Trump, he could have shut this shitshow down from day one.
His "advisers" are fully to blame early on, but I imagine he figured out their scam a few months in and decided to wait this whole thing out, rather than calling it a fraud and shutting it all down ASAP.
The problem is if he'd done that, the media would've either blamed him for the whole thing, or ramped up the hysteria around it and made him look crazy. One of the tricks to leadership is you have to get ahead of the crowd to control it. If you stop being at the head, you no longer look like a leader, and people stop following.
When Trump gets back in, this should be his VP, and eventual successor. Actually he probably would have handled this whole issue better than Trump.
As much as I respect and last be President Trump, he could have shut this shitshow down from day one.
His "advisers" are fully to blame early on, but I imagine he figured out their scam a few months in and decided to wait this whole thing out, rather than calling it a fraud and shutting it all down ASAP.
The problem is if he'd done that, the media would've either blamed him for the whole thing, or ramped up the hysteria around it and made him look crazy. One of the tricks to leadership is you have to get ahead of the crowd to control it. If you stop being at the head, you no longer look like a leader, and people stop following.
In this case he chose the worse option. The media was already screeching at max volume. All he did was let them dictate the terms of the screeching.